The Heart of Darkness has two storytellers: Joseph Conrad, the author, and the story’s narrator, Marlow. The narration that takes place is mostly from Conrad’s opinions. Conrad uses Marlow as the embodiment of all that he represents. He gives Marlow a similar boyhood experience. Marlow’s career, like Conrad’s, spans a significant period in history relations between Europe and Africa. During Conrad’s time in 1860 and the 1870’s, much of Africa was unknown to the Europeans.

Throughout Marlow’s narrative there is no place where he wonder whether or not he’s right or wrong, or if his opinion is biased. There is no way to verify his story, but yet Marlow assumes his readers will believe

In conclusion, racism and discrimination played a huge part in Conrad’s, Heart of Darkness. Color as symbolism plays a large role. The use of colors as symbols gives the reader another way of looking at ideas to the thoughts of Heart of Darkness. Conrad’s comments and his different uses of terms to describe people of color, shows his racism. Also, we can see how Europeans seem to think the Africans were not equal to them. The women were looked down on and considered less worthy then men. Although, there is still racism and discrimination in our society today, hopefully, one day in the near future it will no longer exist.

Color is used very effectively as a tool of symbolism in Heart of Darkness. Colors, especially black and white, are used to symbolize evil (black) and good (white). Other colors are also used but not as often as black and white. In the novel, people are thought to have white souls or black souls depending on goodness or badness or their role at that time. The color of a person’s soul is contrasted to the color of their skin. People are described black with hatred regardless the color of the skin. This is further evidence of black being used with evil. Even today to look in the dictionary and find the word black, the color is thought of as evil or bad, for example, black market, bla

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